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10,000 Dreams Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Table of Contents
10,000 Dreams Interpreted 1
Gustavus Hindman Miller 1
PREFACE 2
A FEW QUESTIONS AND SUBJECTIVE ANSWERS REGARDING DREAMS 18
HOW TO DEVELOP THE POWER TO DREAM 19
DREAMS EXAGGERATED 20
CONTRARY DREAMS 20
WHEN DREAMS ARE LESS PRESCIENT 20
TWO DREAMS ARE NEVER THE SAME, NOR ARE TWO FLOWERS EVER ALIKE 21
WHAT'S IN A DREAM 22
A 22
B 45
C 69
D 112
E 129
F 139
G 156
H 168
I 188
J 197
K 203
L 207
M 230
N 250
O 257
P 265
Q 295
R 298

S 314
T 349
U 368
V 370
W 378
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10,000 Dreams Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller
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PREFACE.•
A FEW QUESTIONS AND SUBJECTIVE ANSWERS REGARDING DREAMS.•
HOW TO DEVELOP THE POWER TO DREAM.•
DREAMS EXAGGERATED.•
CONTRARY DREAMS.•
WHEN DREAMS ARE LESS PRESCIENT.•
TWO DREAMS ARE NEVER THE SAME, NOR ARE TWO FLOWERS EVER ALIKE.•
WHAT'S IN A DREAM.•
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Or "What's In A Dream"
Or Dreams, Their Scientific and Practical Interpretations
_Ten Thousand Dreams
Interpreted,
OR, WHAT'S IN A DREAM_.
A SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL EXPOSITION
BY
GUSTAVUS HINDMAN MILLER
``In a dream, in a vision of the night, when
deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon
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the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and
sealeth their instruction that he may withdraw
man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.''
−−Job xxxiii., 15.
PREFACE.
``Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come.
We dream what is about to happen.''−−BAILEY,

The Bible, as well as other great books of historical and revealed religion, shows traces of a general and
substantial belief in dreams. Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleon assigned to certain dreams prophetic
value. Joseph saw eleven stars of the Zodiac bow to himself, the twelfth star. The famine of Egypt was
revealed by a vision of fat and lean cattle. The parents of Christ were warned of the cruel edict of Herod, and
fled with the Divine Child into Egypt.
Pilate's wife, through the influence of a dream, advised her husband to have nothing to do with the conviction
of Christ. But the gross materialism of the day laughed at dreams, as it echoed the voice and verdict of the
multitude, ``Crucify the Spirit, but let the flesh live.'' Barabbas, the robber, was set at liberty.
The ultimatum of all human decrees and wisdom is to gratify the passions of the flesh at the expense of the
spirit. The prophets and those who have stood nearest the fountain of universal knowledge used dreams with
more frequency than any other mode of divination.
Profane, as well as sacred, history is threaded with incidents of dream prophecy. Ancient history relates that
Gennadius was convinced of the immortality of his soul by conversing with an apparition in his dream.
Through the dream of Cecilia Metella, the wife of a Consul, the Roman Senate was induced to order the
temple of Juno Sospita rebuilt.
The Emperor Marcian dreamed he saw the bow of the Hunnish conqueror break on the same night that Attila
died.
Plutarch relates how Augustus, while ill, through the dream of a friend, was persuaded to leave his tent,
which a few hours after was captured by the enemy, and the bed whereon he had lain was pierced with the
enemies' swords.
If Julius Caesar had been less incredulous about dreams he would have listened to the warning which
Calpurnia, his wife, received in a dream.
Croesus saw his son killed in a dream.
Petrarch saw his beloved Laura, in a dream, on the day she died, after which he wrote his beautiful poem,
``The Triumph of Death.''
Cicero relates the story of two traveling Arcadians who went to different lodgings−−one to an inn, and the
other to a private house. During the night the latter dreamed that his friend was begging for help. The dreamer
awoke; but, thinking the matter unworthy of notice, went to sleep again. The second time he dreamed his
friend appeared, saying it would be too late, for he had already been murdered and his body hid in a cart,
under manure. The cart was afterward sought for and the body found. Cicero also wrote, ``If the gods love

men they will certainly disclose their purposes to them in sleep.''
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Chrysippus wrote a volume on dreams as divine portent. He refers to the skilled interpretations of dreams as a
true divination; but adds that, like all other arts in which men have to proceed on conjecture and on artificial
rules, it is not infallible.
Plato concurred in the general idea prevailing in his day, that there were divine manifestations to the soul in
sleep. Condorcet thought and wrote with greater fluency in his dreams than in waking life.
Tartini, a distinguished violinist, composed his ``Devil's Sonata'' under the inspiration of a dream. Coleridge,
through dream influence, composed his ``Kubla Khan.''
The writers of Greek and Latin classics relate many instances of dream experiences. Homer accorded to some
dreams divine origin. During the third and fourth centuries, the supernatural origin of dreams was so
generally accepted that the fathers, relying upon the classics and the Bible as authority, made this belief a
doctrine of the Christian Church.
Synesius placed dreaming above all methods of divining the future; he thought it the surest, and open to the
poor and rich alike.
Aristotle wrote: ``There is a divination concerning some things in dreams not incredible.'' Camille
Flammarion, in his great book on ``Premonitory Dreams and Divination of the Future,'' says: ``I do not
hesitate to affirm at the outset that occurrence of dreams foretelling future events with accuracy must be
accepted as certain.''
Joan of Arc predicted her death.
Cazotte, the French philosopher and transcendentalist, warned Condorcet against the manner of his death.
People dream now, the same as they did in medieval and ancient times.
The following excerpt from ``The Unknown,''[1] a recent book by Flammarion, the French astronomer,
supplemented with a few of my own thoughts and collections, will answer the purposes intended for this
book.
[1] ``From `The Unknown.' Published by Harper Brothers Copyright, 1900, by Camille Flammarion.''
``We may see without eyes and hear without ears, not by unnatural excitement of our sense of vision or of
hearing, for these accounts prove the contrary, but by some interior sense, psychic and mental.
``The soul, by its interior vision, may see not only what is passing at a great distance, but it may also know in

advance what is to happen in the future. The future exists potentially, determined by causes which bring to
pass successive events.
``POSITIVE OBSERVATION PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF A PSYCHIC WORLD, as real as the world
known to our physical senses.
``And now, because the soul acts at a distance by some power that belongs to it, are we authorized to
conclude that it exists as something real, and that it is not the result of functions of the brain?
``Does light really exist?
``Does heat exist?
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``Does sound exist?
``No.
``They are only manifestations produced by movement.
``What we call light is a sensation produced upon our optic nerve by the vibrations of ether, comprising
between 400 and 756 trillions per second, undulations that are themselves very obscure.
``What we call heat is a sensation produced by vibrations between 350 and and{sic} 600 trillions.
``The sun lights up space, as much at midnight as at midday. Its temperature is nearly 270 degrees below
zero.
``What we call sound is a sensation produced upon our auditory nerve by silent vibrations of the air,
themselves comprising between 32,000 and 36,000 a second.
. . . . . .
``Very many scientific terms represent only results, not causes. ``The soul may be in the same case.
``The observations given in this work, the sensations, the impressions, the visions, things heard, etc., may
indicate physical effects produced without the brain.
``Yes, no doubt, but it does not seem so.
``Let us examine one instance.
``Turn back to page 156.@@@
``A young woman, adored by her husband, dies at Moscow. Her father−in−law, at Pulkowo, near St.
Petersburg, saw her that same hour by his side. She walked with him along the street; then she disappeared.
Surprised, startled, and terrified, he telegraphed to his son, and learned both the sickness and the death of his

daughter−in−law.
``We are absolutely obliged to admit that SOMETHING emanated from the dying woman and touched her
father−in−law. This _thing unknown_ may have been an ethereal movement, as in the case of light, and may
have been only an effect, a product, a result; but this effect must have had a cause, and this cause evidently
proceeded from the woman who was dying. Can the constitution of the brain explain this projection? I do not
think that any anatomist or physiologist will give this question an affirmative answer. One feels that there is a
force unknown, proceeding, not from our physical organization, but from that in us which can think.
``Take another example (see page 57).@@@
``A lady in her own house hears a voice singing. It is the voice of a friend now in a convent, and she faints,
because she is sure it is the voice of the dead. At the same moment that friend does really die, twenty miles
away from her.
``Does not this give us the impression that one soul holds communication with another?
``Here is another example (page 163):@@@
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``The wife of a captain who has gone out to the Indian mutiny sees one night her husband standing before her
with his hands pressed to his breast, and a look of suffering on his face. The agitation that she feels convinces
her that he is either killed or badly wounded. It was November 14th. The War Office subsequently publishes
his death as having taken place on November 15th. She endeavors to have the true date ascertained. The War
Office was wrong. He died on the 14th.
``A child six years old stops in the middle of his play and cries out, frightened: ``Mamma, I have seen
Mamma.'' At that moment his mother was dying far away from him (page 124).@@@
``A young girl at a ball stops short in the middle of a dance and cries, bursting into tears. `My father is dead; I
have just seen him.' At that moment her father died. She did not even know he was ill.
``All these things present themselves to us as indicating not physiological operations of one brain acting on
another, but psychic actions of spirit upon spirit. We feel that they indicate to us some power unknown.
``No doubt it is difficult to apportion what belongs to the spirit, the soul, and what belongs to the brain. We
can only let ourselves be guided in our judgment and our appreciations by the same feeling that is created in
us by the discussion of phenomena. This is how all science has been started. Well, and does not every one
feel that we have here to do with manifestations from beings capable of thought, and not with material

physiological facts only?
``This impression is superabundantly confirmed by investigation concerning the unknown faculties of the
soul, when active in dreams and somnambulism.
``A brother learns the death of his young sister by a terrible nightmare.
``A young girl sees beforehand, in a dream, the man whom she will marry.
``A mother sees her child lying in a road, covered with blood.
``A lady goes, in a dream, to visit her husband on a distant steamer, and her husband really receives this visit,
which is seen by a third person.
``A magnetized lady sees and describes the interior of the body of her dying mother; what she said is
confirmed by the autopsy.
``A gentleman sees, in a dream, a lady whom he knows arriving at night in a railroad station, her journey
having been undertaken suddenly.
``A magistrate sees three years in advance the commission of a crime, down to its smallest details.
``Several persons report that they have seen towns and landscapes before they ever visited them, and have
seen themselves in situations in which they found themselves long after.
``A mother hears her daughter announce her intended marriage six months before it has been thought of.
``Frequent cases of death are foretold with precision.
``A theft is seen by a somnambulist, and the execution of the criminal is foretold.
``A young girl sees her fiance', or an intimate friend dying (these are frequent cases), etc.
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``All these show unknown faculties in the soul. Such at least is my own impression. It seems to me that we
cannot reasonably attribute the prevision of the future and mental sight to a nervous action of the brain.
``I think we must either deny these facts or admit that they must have had an intellectual and spiritual cause
of the psychic order, and I recommend sceptics who do not desire to be convinced, to deny them outright; to
treat them as illusions and cases of a fortuitous coincidence of circumstances. They will find this easier.
Uncompromising deniers of facts, rebels against evidence, may be all the more positive, and may declare that
the writers of these extraordinary narratives are persons fond of a joke, who have written them to hoax me,
and that there have been persons in all ages who have done the same thing to mystify thinkers who have
taken up such questions.

``These phenomena prove, I think, that the soul exists, and that it is endowed with faculties at present
unknown. That is the logical way of commencing our study, which in the end may lead us to the problem of
the after−life and immortality. A thought can be transmitted to the mind of another. There are mental
transmissions, communications of thoughts, and psychic currents between human souls. Space appears to be
no obstacle in these cases, and time sometimes seems to be annihilated.''
A few years ago a person whom I will designate as ``A'' related a dream to me as follows: ``I take no interest
in pugilism or pugilists, but I saw, in a dream, every detail of the Corbett and Fitzsimmons mill, four days
before it took place out West. Two nights before the fight I had a second dream in which a favorite horse was
running, but suddenly, just before the judge's stand was passed, a hitherto unobserved little black horse ran
ahead and the crowd shouted in my ears, `Fitzsimmons wins!' ''
``B'' relates the following as a dream: ``I saw the American soldiers, in clay−colored uniform, bearing the
flag of victory two weeks before the Spanish−American war was declared, and of course before any living
being could have known the uniform to be adopted. Later I saw, several days before the actual occurrence
happened, the destruction of Cervera's fleet by the American navy.'' Signed ``B.''
``Just after the South African hostilities began, I saw in a dream a fierce struggle between the British and
Boers, in which the former suffered severe losses. A few nights after I had a second dream in which I saw the
contending forces in a long−drawn contest, very disastrous to both, and in which neither could claim a
victory. They seemed to be fighting to a frazzle.'' Signed ``C.''
``D'' related to me at the time of the occurrence of the dream the following: ``It had been suggested to me that
the two cereals, corn and wheat, were too far apart, and that I ought to buy corn. At noon I lay down on a
lounge to await luncheon; I had barely closed my eyes before a voice whispered: `Don't buy, but sell that
corn.' `What do you mean?' I asked. `Sell at the present price, and buy at 23 7/8.' '' The foregoing dream was
related to me by a practical, successful business man who never speculates. I watched the corn market and
know it took the turns indicated in the dream.
In this dream we find the dreamer conversing with some strange intelligence possessed of knowledge
unknown to objective reason. It could not, therefore, have been the waking thoughts of the dreamer, for he
possessed no such information. Was the message superinduced through the energies and activities of the
waking mind on the subjective mind? This could not have been, because he had no such thoughts; besides,
the intelligence given was free from the errors of the calculating and anxious waking mind.
We must therefore look to other sources for an explanation. Was it the higher self that manifested to Abraham

in the dim ages of the world? Was it the Divine Voice that gave solace to Krishna in his abstraction? Was it
the unerring light that preceded Gautama into the strange solitudes of Asia? Was it the small voice that Elijah
heard in the desert of Shurr? Was it the Comforter of Jesus in the wilderness and the garden of distress? Or,
was it Paul's indwelling spirit of this earthly tabernacle? One thing we may truthfully affirm−−that it did not
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proceed from the rational, objective mind of the rank materialist, who would close all doors to that inner life
and consciousness where all true religion finds its birthmark, its hope, its promises and its faith; which,
rightly understood, will leave to the horrors of the Roman crucifixion the twin thieves, superstition and
scepticism, while the angel of ``Goodwill'' will go free to solace the world with the fruit and fragrance of
enduring power and promise{.} The steel chains that fasten these hydra−headed crocodiles of sensuous
poison around love and destiny can only be severed by the diamond of wisdom and knowledge.
A citizen worthy of confidence relates the following dream: ``In December, 1878, I saw in a dream my
brother−in−law, Henry Yarnell, suffering from a bloody knife wound; after this I awoke, but soon fell asleep
again. The second time I dreamed of a similar scene, except that the wound was the result of a shotgun. After
this I did not go to sleep again. I was much troubled about my dream, and soon started in the direction of my
brother−in−law's house. I had not gone far, when I met an acquaintance who promptly informed me that my
brother−in−law had been shot.'' Signed ``E.''
A well−known resident of Chattanooga, Tenn., formerly of New York City, will vouch for the accuracy of
the following incident in his life:
``On February 19, 1878, I was boarding with a family on Christopher street, New York, while my wife and
baby were visiting my parents in the country, a short distance from the city. Our baby was taken sick. The
malady developed into brain fever, followed by water on the brain, causing the little one's death.
``At our boarding−place there was at the time a quartette of us grass widowers, as we called ourselves, and in
order to pass away the time pleasantly we had organized a `grass widowers' euchre club.' We used to meet
almost every evening after dinner in the dining−room, and play until about eleven o'clock, when we would
retire. On the above date I dreamed that after playing our usual evening games we took our departure for our
rooms, and on the way up the second flight of stairs I heard a slight movement behind me; on looking around
I found I was being followed by a tall figure robed in a long, loose white gown, which came down to the
floor. The figure seemed to be that of a man−−I would say, about seven feet tall−−who followed me up the

second flight and along the hallway, entering my room. After coming in the door he made a circle of the
room and seemed to be looking for something, and when he approached the door to make his exit he stopped
still, and with a gesture of his hand remarked, `I have taken all you have.' On the following morning, about
9:30 o'clock, I received a telegram from my wife announcing the death of our only baby.'' Signed ``F.''
A well−known citizen of Chattanooga, Tenn., relates and vouches for the truth of the following occurrence:
``Several years ago, when a boy, I had a schoolmate and friend, Willie T., between whom and myself there
sprung up a mutual feeling of high regard. We were chums in the sense that we were almost constantly
together, both at school and at home, and among the partnerships we formed was one of having amateur
shadowgraph and panoramic shows in the basement of Willie's home. This much to show the mental and
social relationship that existed between us. Some time during this association (I cannot recall the exact night
now) I had a strange dream, in which my chum appeared to me with outstretched hand, asking me to shake,
saying, `I shall not see you any more.' With that, the dream lapsed and was over. I thought nothing of the
occurrence, and had almost forgotten it, when one day, about a week later, during which time I had not had a
glimpse of my chum, while he was out hunting with another friend, W. McC., in following him over a rail
fence, the latter's gun was accidentally discharged in Willie's face and neck, resulting in instant death. With
this shocking news the memory of the dream I had had came back to me vividly and puzzled me very greatly,
and indeed has puzzled me to this day.'' Signed ``G.''
The recipients of the above dreams are living to−day and their names and address may be obtained, none of
them are credulous fanatics or predisposed to a belief in psychic or spirit phenomena.
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The above dreams, except two, cannot be explained by telepathy, because the mental picture cast on the
dream mind had not in either instance taken place in waking life. This would account for the dream
perception of ``D,'' which did not, in all probability, take place until after the murder had been committed.
The vision of ``F'' might be disposed of in the same way. In this instance ``F'' saw the white−robed specter
open the door, walk around the room and finally, taking his position as if to depart, say: ``I have taken all you
have.'' No doubt this vision took place at the exact moment of the child's death.
There are thousands of similar experiences occurring daily in the lives of honest, healthy and sane human
beings, that rival the psychic manifestations of Indian Yogism or Hebrew records.
Still men go on doubting this true and loving subjective intelligence that is constantly wooing for entrance

into the soul and is ever vigilant in warning the material life of approaching evils. They prefer the Witch of
Endor, and the Black Magicians of ancient Egypt to the higher, or Christ self, that has been seen and heard by
the sages and saints of all ages, assuming appropriate symbols, as in the case of the vision of ``F,'' where the
angel of death was assumed.
To Paul it appeared as a great personal truth whom he was relentlessly persecuting. To many a wayward son
or daughter of the present time, it appears as a dead relative or friend, in order to approach the material mind
and make its warning more effective.
To those who were interested in the teachings of Christ, but who after his death were inclined to doubt him,
this higher self materialized in the form of the Great Master in order to impress on their material minds the
spiritual import of his teachings. So, to this day, when doubt and temptation mar the moral instinct, God,
through the spiritual self, as Job says, approaches man while in deep sleep upon the bed to impress his
instructions that he may change man from his purpose.
The spiritual world always fixes its orbit upon a straight line, while the material world is fonder of curves.
We find man struggling through dreadful marshes and deserts of charlatanism in order to get a glimpse into
his future, instead of solicitously following the straight line of inner consciousness that connects with the
infinite mind, from which, aided by his Church and the healthy action of his own judgment, he may receive
those helpful spiritual impressions and messages necessary to solace the longings of the searching soul.
The philosophy of the True Master is the straight line. Pythagoras, Plato and Christ created angles by running
vertical lines through the ecclesiastical and hypocritical conventionalities of their day. The new angles and
curves thus produced by the bold philosophy of the humble Nazarene have confronted with impregnable
firmness during the intervening ages the sophistry of the Pharisees.
``In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he
openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction. That he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide
pride from man.''−−JOB 33:15.
``Man cannot contradict the laws of Nature. But, are all the laws of Nature yet understood?''
``Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.''−−LYTTON.
Those who live active lives exclude spiritual thought and fill their minds with the fascinations of worldly
affairs, pleasure and business, dream with less frequency than those who regard objective matters with lighter
concern. The former depend alone upon the voluptuous warmth of the world for contentment; they look to
money, the presence of some one, or to other external sources for happiness, and are often disappointed;

while the latter, with a just appreciation of temporal wants, depend alone upon the inner consciousness for
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that peace which passeth all carnal understanding.
They are strengthened, as were Buddha and Christ, by suppressing the sensual fires for forty days and nights
in the wilderness of trial and temptation. They number a few, and are never disappointed, while the former
number millions.
Nature is three−fold, so is man; male and female, son or soul. The union of one and two produce the triad or
the trinity which underlies the philosophy of the ancients.
Man has a physical or visible body, an atom of the physical or visible earth. He has a soul the exact
counterpart of his body, but invisible and subjective; incomplete and imperfect as the external man, or _vice
versa_.
The soul is not only the son or creation of man, but it is the real man. It is the inner imperishable double or
imprint of what has outwardly and inwardly transpired. All thoughts, desires and actions enter the soul
through the objective mind.
The automaton of the body responds as quickly to the bat of the eye as it does to the movement of the whole
body. By it the foot−steps of man and the very hairs of his head are numbered. Thus it becomes his invisible
counterpart. It is therefore the book of life or death, and by it he judges himself or is already judged. When it
is complete nothing can be added or taken from its personnel. It is sometimes partly opened to him in his
dreams, but in death is clearly revealed.
Man has also a spiritual body, subjective to, and more ethereal than the soul. It is an infinitesimal atom, and is
related in substance to the spiritual or infinite mind of the universe. Just as the great physical sun, the center
of visible light, life and heat, is striving to purify the foul miasma of the marsh and send its luminous
messages of love into the dark crevices of the earth, so the Great Spiritual Sun, of which the former is a
visible prototype or reflection, is striving to illuminate with Divine Wisdom the personal soul and mind of
man, thus enabling him to become cognizant of the spiritual or Christ presence within.
The heresy and Herod of wanton flesh, degenerate victim of the sensuous filth and fermentation of
self−indulgence, is ever striving to exile and suppress, from the wilderness of sin, the warning cry of the
Nazarite voice by intriguing with the cunning, incestuous daughters of unholy thoughts and desires.
The objective mind is most active when the body is awake. The subjective influences are most active, and

often fill the mind with impressions, while the physical body is asleep. The spiritual intelligence can only
intrude itself when the human will is suspended, or passive to external states. A man who lives only on the
sensual plane will receive his knowledge through the senses, and will not, while in that state, receive spiritual
impressions or warning dreams.
Men and women rarely ever degrade themselves so low that the small voice of the desert does not bring them
a message. Sodom and Gomorrah, vile with the debauchery of a nameless crime, were not deserted by the
angel of love until the fire which they had lighted in their souls had consumed them. The walls of Jericho did
not fall until Rahab, the harlot, had been saved and the inmates had heard for several days the ram's−horn and
the tramp of Joshua's infantry.
The evangelist Jonah, the Sam Jones of Hebrew theology, exhorted the adulterous Nineveh many times to
repentance before it fell.
David, while intoxicated with the wine of love, from languishing in the seductive embrace of the beautiful
bathing nymph, Bathsheba, heard the voice of Nathan. Surely God is no respecter of persons, and will speak
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to all classes if the people will not stiffen their necks or harden their hearts.
Women dream more often and more vividly than men, because their dream composition is less influenced
and allied to external environments.
All dreams possess an element of warning or prescience; some more than others. This is unknown to the
many, but is known to the observing few. There are many people who have no natural taste for music, and
who do not know one note from another. There are also those who cannot distinguish one color from another.
To the former there is no harmony of sound, and to the latter there is no blending of colors.
They are heard and seen, but there is no artistic recognition of the same. Still it would be absurd to say to
either the musician or the artist: your art is false and is only an illusion of the senses.
One man apparently never dreams; another dreams occasionally, and still another more frequently; none
atttempt{sic} to interpret their dream, or to observe what follows; therefore, the verdict is, ``There is nothing
in dreams.'' (Schopenhauer aptly says: ``No man can see over his own height Intellect is invisible to the
man who has none.'') The first is like the blind man who denies the existence of light, because he does not
perceive it. The second and third resemble the color−blind man, who sees but who persists in calling green
blue, and _vice versa_.

A fourth man sees in a dream a friend walking in his room; the vision is so vivid he instantly gets up and
strikes a match. After making sure there is no intruder about the room he looks at his watch and goes back to
bed. The next day he receives the unwelcome tidings that his friend died at the exact moment of the vision.
At another time he hears in his dream a familiar voice cry out in agony. Soon he hears of a shocking accident
or distressing illness befalling the one whose voice he recognized in the dream.[2]
[2] For authentic records, see Flammarion's ``Unknown.''
The third man, already referred to, has about the same dream experiences, but calls them strange coincidences
or unconscious cerebration, etc.
Again, the fourth man dreams of walking through green fields of corn, grass or wheat. He notes after such
dreams prosperous conditions follow for at least a few days. He also notes, if the area over which he passes is
interspersed with rocks or other adverse signs, good and bad follow in the wake of the dream. If he succeeds
in climbing a mountain and finds the top barren he will accomplish his object, but the deal will prove
unprofitable. If it is green and spring−like in appearance, it will yield good results. If he sees muddy water,
sickness, business depression or causes for jealousy may develop.
A nightmare suggests to the dreamer to be careful of health and diet, to relax his whole body, to sleep with
his arms down and keep plenty of fresh air in the room.
He sums up the foregoing with a thousand similar dream incidents, and is led to believe certain dreams
possess an element of warning.
There are three pure types of dreams, namely, _subjective_, _physical_ and _spiritual_. They relate to the
past, present and future, and are influenced by past or subjective, physical and spiritual causes. The latter is
always deeply prophetic, especially when it leaves a vivid impression on the conscious mind. The former,
too, possesses an element of warning and prophecy, though the true meaning is hidden in symbols or
allegory. They are due to contingent mental pictures of the past falling upon the conscious mind of the
dreamer. Thus he is back at the old home, and finds mother pale and aged, or ruddy and healthy, and the lawn
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withered or green. It all augurs, according to the aspect the picture assumes, ill or good fortune.
Physical dreams are more or less unimportant. They are usually superinduced by the anxious waking mind,
and when this is so they possess no prophetic significance.
Dreams induced by opiates, fevers, mesmerism and ill health come under this class. A man who gambles is

liable to dream of cards; if he dreams of them in deep sleep the warning is to be heeded; but if it comes as a
reverie while he sleeps lightly he should regard it as worthless. Such dreams reflect only the present condition
of the body and mind of the dreamer; but as the past and present enter into shaping the future, the reflections
thus left on the waking mind should not go by unheeded.
We often observe matters of dress and exterior appearance through mirrors, and we soon make the necessary
alterations to put our bodies in harmony with existing formalities. Then, why not study more seriously the
mental images reflected from the mirror of the soul upon our minds through the occult processes within us?
Thirdly, the spiritual dreams are brought about by the higher self penetrating the soul realm, and reflecting
upon the waking mind approaching events. When we put our animal mind and soul in harmony with our
higher self we become one with it, and, therefore, one with the universal mind or will by becoming a part of
it. It is through the higher self we reach the infinite. It is through the lower self we fall into the whirlpool of
matter.
These dreams are a part of the universal mind until they transpire in the life of man. After this they go to
make a part of the personal soul. Whatever has not taken place in the mind, or life of man, belongs
exclusively to the impersonal mind. But as soon as a man lives or sees a thing, that thing instantly becomes a
part of his soul; hence, the clairvoyant, or mind reader, never perceives beyond the personal ego, as the future
belongs exclusively to God or the universal mind, and has no material, subjective existence; therefore, it
cannot be known except through the channels of the higher self, which is the Truth or the Word that is
constantly striving to manifest itself through the flesh.
Our psychical research people give us conclusive proof of mental telepathy or telegraphy between finite
minds. Thus communications or impressions are conveyed many miles from one mind to another. This
phenomenon is easier when one or both of the subjects are in a state of somnambulence or asleep.
In thought transference or mind reading it is absolutely necessary to have a positive and a negative subject.
Through the same law that mental impressions are telegraphed from one finite mind to another a man may
place himself in harmony with the infinite mind and thus receive true and healthful warnings of coming evil
or good. Homer, Aristotle and other writers of the ancient classics thought this not improbable.
The statesman, the poet, the philosopher of the Bible were unanimous in attaching prophetic significance to
dreams. Has the law of ethereal vibrations undergone any recent changes to debar or molest the communion
of the soul with its spiritual father, any more than it has debarred contact with its material mother or
environments?

We only understand the great laws of nature by effects. We know that vegetation planted in native soil and
properly attended with light, heat and moisture, will grow and yield a certain species of fruit. We may infer
how it does this, but we cannot explain the process of transformation any more than we can explain why
certain tropical birds are burnished with glowing colors, and that other birds under the murky skies are gray
and brown, while in the Arctic regions they bleach.
In sleep we see, without being awakened, the angry lightning rend the midnight clouds, and hear the
explosive thunder hurl its fury at us; but can we explain it any more than our scientist can explain the natural
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forces of thought, of love and hate, or the subtle intuition of woman?
What of the silhouette or the anthelion of the Scandinavian Alps, and the aerial cities so often seen by
explorers and travelers? Do not they defy the law of optics? Must we understand the intricacies of articulation
and the forces back of it before we can appropriate speech? Must we discard all belief in an infinite mind
because we cannot understand it, and therefore say we are not a part of it because there is no Infinite? Should
we discard the belief in the infinitude of number, because we cannot understand it, and therefore say that
finite number is not a part of the infinite?
No scientist or naturalist is so grossly stupid as to deny the infinite expansion of numbers? If this be so, it
establishes the infinite of number, of which every finite number is a part, and thus we have a parallel in
mathematics, the very cornerstone of the exact sciences, for a finite and an infinite mind. It is from the
prototype of this infinite of number, namely, the infinite of intelligence, that spiritual dreams proceed. They
are, therefore, the reflection of truth upon the dream mind and occur with less frequency than do dreams of
the other two classes.
There are also mixed dreams, due to a multitude of incidents arising from one or more sources, which being
reflected upon the mind at the same instant, produce an incoherent effect similar to that which might be
produced by running the same newspaper through two or more presses all of different size type.
Again, if you sit before a mirror where flashlights of faces and other things are reflected simultaneously and
instantly removed, you will fail to obtain a well−defined impression of what passed before your mind.
If you should pass on a train, at the speed of two miles a minute, through a forest of flowers and trees, your
mind would be unable to distinguish one flower or tree from another.
It is in a similar way dream life and incidents may fall upon the mind.

A woman may dream of receiving a letter, and in the same connection see muddy water, or an arid landscape.
Closely following, in waking life, she is astonished to receive a letter in about the same manner of her dream,
but the muddy water and the arid landscape are missing.
This is a mixed dream and is due to more than one cause. The first part is literal in its fulfilment, and belongs
to the spiritual class; the other part of the dream is subjective, and therefore allegorical in meaning. Together
with the letter, it was a forewarning of misfortune.
These dreams are more difficult of interpretation than those belonging to the spiritual type. In such dreams
you may see water, letters, houses, money, people, and countless other things. The next day you may cross
water or receive a letter; the other things you may not see, but annoyance or pleasure will follow.
Again, you may have a similar dream and not receive a letter or cross water, but the waking life will be filled
with the other dream pictures and you will experience disappointing or pleasant surprises as are indicated by
the letter or water sign.
I have selected the allegorical type of dreams for the subject of this work. Dreams that are common
occurrences and are thought by the world to be meaningless.
I have endeavored, through the occult forces in and about me to find their esoteric or hidden import.
_Dreams transpire on the subjective plane. They should therefore be interpreted by subjective intelligence_.
This, though burdened with many business cares, I have honestly endeavored to do. Through the long hours
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of many nights I have waited patiently and passively the automatic movement of my hand to write the
subjective definitions without receiving a word or a single manifestation of intelligence, and again the
mysterious forces would write as fast as my hand could move over the paper.
I will leave it for my readers to draw their own conclusions as to whether automatic writing is the work of
extraneous spirits, through the brain and intelligence of the medium, or the result of auto−suggestive
influence upon the subjective personality.
It is argued by the Materialist, with some degree of strength, that the healthy man does not dream, This is,
perhaps, true, in a way, but the whole man comprises the past, present, and future. The past and future always
embrace more of the conditions that surround him than the present. The present is only the acute stage, while
the chronic stage, considered from a personal view, is the past and future combined. Man cannot eliminate
entirely these states from himself, for, while they are past and future to the personal mind, they are ever

present to the higher subjective senses; he is, therefore, never in perfect health unless these states are in
harmony with the present. The personal self, in a normal state, cannot free itself from the past or from the
anxieties of the future.
The reader should ever keep before his mind the fact that no man ever had the same dream twice. He may
have had very similar dreams, but some detail will be missing. Nature seems to abhor duplicates. You could
no more find two dreams alike than you could find facsimiles in two blades of grass. A man cannot live two
days exactly alike. Different influences and passions will possess him. Consequently, no two dreams can be
had under exactly the same influences. Stereotypes are peculiarly the invention of man and not of God or
nature.
Since it is impossible to find a man twice in exactly the same mental state, it is equally impossible for him to
dream the same dream twice; therefore, it is only possible to approximate dream interpretation by classing
them into families. This I have attempted to do in a more comprehensive way than other writers who have
preceded me.
All men are acquainted with health and sickness, love and hate, success and failure. Sickness, hate and failure
belong to kindred families, and often ally their forces in such a way that it is hard to say whether the dreamer
will fail in love, health or some business undertaking. But at all times a bad symbol is a warning of evil,
though that evil may be minimized or exaggerated, or _vice versa_, according as signs are good.
Thus, if the dream symbol indicates wealth or fortune to the peasant, his waking life may be gladdened by
receiving or seeing a fifty−cent piece, or finding assuring work, while the same symbol to a wealthy man
would mean many dollars, or a favorable turn in affairs.
It is the same in physical life. A man may hear the sound of a wagon. He cannot determine by the rattle of the
wheels whether it is laden with laundry, groceries or dry goods. He may judge as to its size and whether it is
bearing a heavy or a light burden. When it objectifies he will be able to know its full import and not before.
So with dream symbols. We may know they are fraught with evil or good, as in the case of Pilate's wife, but
we cannot tell their full meaning until their reflections materialize before the objective sense.
Death is more frequently foretold by dream messages or visions, as explained in another part of this chapter.
During sleep the will is suspended, leaving the mind often a prey to its own fancy. The slightest attack of an
enemy may be foretold by the unbridled imagination exaggerating the mental picture into a monstrous shark
or snake, when, indeed, a much less portentous sign was cast from the dream mold.
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A woman may see a serpent in waking life and through fright lose reason or self−control. She imagines it
pursues her when in reality it is going an opposite direction; in a like way dreams may be many times unreal.
The mind loses its reason or will in sleep, but a supersensitive perception is awakened, and, as it regains
consciousness from sleep, the sound of a knock on the wall may be magnified into a pistol shot.
The sleeping mind is not only supersensitive as to existing external sounds and light, but it frequently sees
hours and days ahead of the waking mind.
Nor is this contradictory to the laws of nature. The ant housed in the depth of the earth, away from
atmospheric changes, knows of the approach of the harvest, and comes forth to lay by his store.
In a like manner, the pet squirrel is a better barometer of the local weather than the Weather Bureau. With
unerring foresight, when a wintry frown nowhere mars the horizon, he is able to apprehend a cold wave
twenty−four hours ahead, and build his house accordingly.
So in sleep, man dreams the future by intuitive perception of invisible signs or influences, while awake he
reasons it out by cause and effect. The former seems to be the law of the spiritual world, while the latter
would appear to be the law of the material world. Man should not depend alone upon either. Together they
proclaim the male and female principle of existence and should find harmonious consummation.
In this manner only can man hope to achieve that perfect normal state to which the best thought of the human
race is aspiring, where he can create and control influences instead of being created and controlled by them,
as the majority of us are at the present day.
God, the highest subjective source of intelligence, may in a dream leave impressions or presentiments on the
mind of man, the highest objective source of intelligence.
The physical sun sends its light into the dark corners of the earth, and God, the Spiritual Sun, imparts spiritual
light into the passive and receptive soul.
Man, by hiding in a cave, or closing the windows and doors of his house, may shut out all physical light; so
he may steep his soul in sensual debauchery until all spiritual light is shut out.
Just as the vital essence of the soil, the mother of nature, may be extracted by abuse, either from omission or
commission, until neither the light of the sun, nor the moisture of the heavens will wake the flush of life, so
may the spiritual essence be deadened when the soil of the soul is filled with the aged and multiplying weeds
of ravishing materiality.
The dream mind is often influenced by the waking mind. When the waking mind dwells upon any subject, the

dream mind is more or less influenced by it, and it often assists the waking mind in solving difficult
problems. The personal future, embodied in the active states of the universal mind, may affect the dream
mind, producing premonitions of death, accidents and misfortune.
The objective mind rejoices or laments over the aspects of the past and present, while the spiritual mind,
striving with the personal future, either laments or rejoices over the prospective conditions.
One is the barometer of the past, while the other is the barometer of the future.
If we study carefully the spiritual impressions left upon the dream mind, through the interpretations of this
book, we will be able to shape our future in accordance with spiritual law.
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Thus our temporal events will contribute to our spiritual development, and in turn our spiritual knowledge
will contribute to our temporal welfare. Without this harmonious interaction of the two great forces in man,
the Divine plan of destiny cannot be reached.
This can only be accomplished through the material mind or reason dominating the animal emotions of the
heart. In this way we would not covet our neighbor's goods, or grow angry with our brother over trifles.
The house vacated by the sefish{sic} appetites of the world would be filled with the whispers of spiritual love
and wisdom necessary to the mutual welfare and development of body and soul.
The theory used in this book to interpret dreams is both simple and rational. By the using of it you will be
surprised to find so many of the predictions fulfilled in your waking life. We deal with both the thought and
the dream. The thought or sign implied in the object dreamed of and the influence surrounding it are always
considered in the interpretation.
Thoughts proceed from the visible mind and dreams from the invisible mind. The average waking mind
receives and retains only a few of the lessons of life. It is largely filled with idle and incoherent thoughts that
are soon forgotten. The same may be truly said of the dream mind. Many of our day thoughts are day dreams,
just as many of our night dreams are night thoughts. Our day deeds of evil or good pierce or soothe the
conscience, just as our night symbols of sorrow and joy sadden or please the objective senses. Our day's
thoughts are filled with the warnings and presence of the inner mind and our night's thoughts are tinctured
and often controlled by our external mind.
Some writer has said: ``Everything that exists upon earth has its ethereal counterpart.'' Christ said: ``As a man
thinketh so is he.'' A Hindu proverb says: ``Man is a creature of reflection; he becomes that upon which he

reflects.'' A modern metaphysicist says: ``Our thoughts are real substance and leave their images upon our
personality, they fill our aura with beauty or ugliness according to our intents and purposes in life.'' Each evil
thought or action has its pursuing phantom, each smile or kindly deed its guiding angel, we leave wherever
we ignobly stand, a tomb and an epitaph to haunt us through the furnace of conscience and memory.
Closely following in the wake of our multiplying evil thoughts are armies of these ghastly spectres pursuing
each other with the exact intents and purposes of the mind that gave them being. If we consider well these
facts we will be forced into thinking our best thoughts at all times. Thoughts are the subjective and creative
force that produces action. Action is the objective effect of thought; hence the character of our daily thoughts
is making our failure or success of to−morrow.
The impersonal mind deals with all time and things as ever present. The objective mind is constantly striving
to penetrate the spiritual realm, while the spiritual mind is striving to enter matter, hence our actions have
their subjective counterparts and their subethereal counterparts. The universal mind, in harmony with the
evolutionary plans and laws of the macrocosms, materializes through functions of the microcosm, imparting
to each, with its routine of failure and success, its daily objectivity. The inner or passive dream mind may
perceive the subjective types or antitypes many days before they objectify through the microcosm. Their
meaning is often wrapt in symbols, but sometimes the actual as it occurs in objective life is conveyed. Our
own thought images which have passed before the objective mind may be perceived by the clever mind
reader, but those antitypes which are affecting our future, but which have none other but subjective existence,
are rarely ever perceived by any one except by the power of the higher self or the spirit within. For this
reason we are enjoined by the sages to study self. With the physical mind we only see physical objects, with
the subjective mind we see only subjective objects. This was Paul's doctrine and it is the belief of the best
psychic thought of this century. By means of our reason−− an objective process for divining the
future−−aided by mathematical and geographical data, we may outline the storm centers and the path of the
rain days before they appear in certain localities. After eliminating all contingencies arising from clerical
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error and counteracting influence, the prognostication is sure of fulfilment. For centuries ahead the
astronomer foretells the eclipse of the moon and the sun and the arrival of comets. He does not do this by
crossing the borderland dividing the spiritual from the physical world. In a like manner the subjective forces
operate upon their own planes and know very little even of their own corporal realm, just as our physical

senses know little, if anything, of the soul or spiritual habitation. They know that by gross living the sense of
conscience may be dulled, or that by right living it may be strengthened. In like manner the subjective mind
perceives by its own senses certain invisible types of evil seeking external manifestations in the microcosm. It
knows that these forms of error will work harm to the objective mind, and that if persisted in they will pervert
all intercourse or interchange of counsel between the two factions of the man. In this there is no spiritual
perception of physical objects, any more than there is in mundane life a sense perception of spiritual images
and antitypes. The former only sees the forms that manifest on its plane, while the latter can note only those
common to its sphere. Each may recognize and feel the violence or good that these manifestations will do to
their respective counterparts, but we have no reason to believe that normal objective or subjective states have
visional powers beyond their own plane. The mind of man acting upon the mind of the macrocosm will
produce, according as he thinks or acts, antitypes of good or evil in the imagination of the world which is
reflected upon the spiritual aura of the microcosm previous to taking on corporal form. While in this state
they may be perceived by subjectivity, and thus the images seen are impressed on the dream mind during
sleep, or on the passivity of the objective sense.
Evil or righteous acts recently committed will more acutely affect the present waking mind than those
enacted at a more remote period. In a similar way future disaster or success which is soon to occur will
impress the dream mind more vividly than those which are to transpire at a later date. But in the lives of all
men there are past incidents which they will never forget, and which will never cease to fill their hearts with
pride or remorse. So, too, in their distant future there are important events to transpire which are struggling
through tumultuous infinitude to leave their ghastly or smiling impress upon the dream mind. If your mental
states are passive you will receive the warnings. There are cases on record which show events have been
forecast years ahead of their occurrence.
We do not claim that this book will prove an interpreter of all dreams, or that the keys disclosed will open to
you all the mysteries of the future, or even all those surrounding your own personality, but by studying the
definitions and the plane upon which they were written, you will be able, through the power of your own
spirit, to interpret your own dreams. The combination of dream and dream influences are as infinite as the
stars, or the combination of thought and number. They can only be classed and considered as such. They
cannot be analyzed in detail or as a whole. In mathematics we have nine digits from which an infinite variety
of combinations may be formed and solved by the deduction of the mind. Through them we may measure
time, space, quality and quantity.

The symbol o and I exist by reason of _no thing_ and _some thing_ or death and life. The figure one is
subject to illimitable expansion. It is without beginning in the infinite of number, as God is without beginning
in the infinite of being. As with the vegetable kingdom, the tiny seed or acorn silently working its magical
transformation into a plant or tree, and directing its destiny with marvelous intelligence through the torrid and
frigid vicissitudes of the seasons; so is man without beginning in the infinitude of his own being or
microcosm. Man is both a type and antitype. A type of what pre−existed in the imagination of the world, and
an antitype of a future life yet to manifest itself on another plane where the incidents of the one will be
subjective, as the events occurring in infancy or in other planes are now subjective. His dreams, thoughts and
actions, and the influences that produce them and their multiplying combination, cannot be numbered or
reproduced any more than you can number the leaves of the forest, or find two exactly similar units among
them. Thus the full meaning or interpretation of dreams cannot be fully demonstrated through mental or even
spiritual stereotypes. But by the intelligent use of this book you will be able to trace out almost any dream
combination and arrive at the true nature of its portent.
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A wise doctor, in preparing medicine for a patient, considers well his age, temperament and his present
condition. So should the interpreter of dreams ponder well the mental state, the health, habits and
temperament of the dreamer. These things no one can know so well as the dreamer himself. He, therefore,
with the aid of this book, will be able to interpret his dreams by the light that is in him.
Man is the microcosm or a miniature world. He has a soul and mental firmament, bounded by the stellar dust
and the milky way, and filled with the mystery of suns, satellites and stars. These he can study best by the
astronomy of induction and introspection. He has also a physical plane, diversified by oceans, lakes, rivers,
fertile valleys, waste places and mountains. All are in cosmic interdependency as they are in the macrocosm.
Here rests the mystery of being−−the grandest of subjects! The student is no less bewildered and awed than
the geologist who gropes blindly through the seams of the earth searching for links in the infinite chain of
knowledge, or the astronomer sweeping the heavens of the macrocosm in quest of new phenomena. The two
planes are dependent upon each other. It is the smile or disease of the firmament that blesses or diseases the
earth. It is likewise the impure firmament of the microcosm that diseases the body and soul. If it reflects the
drought of thought or the various states of evil, deserts will enlarge, forest of infectious, venomous growth
will form the habitation of lust and murder. Before great moral or physical revolutions or catastrophes occur,

clouds will darken the horizon of the dream mind; storms will gather, lurid flames of lightning will flash their
volatile anger; the explosive thunder will recklessly carry on its bombardment; bells will ring, strange
knocking will be heard−−symbols of a message−− phantom forms will be seen, familiar voices will call and
plead with you, unknown visitors will threaten you, unearthly struggles with hideous giants and agonies of
mind and body will possess you; malformations of the most hideous type will seize your vision; shrouded in
sheets of a whitish vapor, evanescent specters, with pallid face and of warning countenance, will cling around
you, and contagion and famine will leave their desolate impress upon the flower of health and in the field of
plenty. Thus all of us would be nightly warned in our circle or miniature world if we would develop
subjective strength to retain the impressions left upon our dream mind. But in spite of all reason and
conscience−− in spite of the inductive knowledge received through our senses−− we go on from day to day,
and step by step, feeding our soul on the luscious fruit of the outward senses, until the rank weeds of
sefishness{sic} have choked out all other forces. Thus the soul is filled with thought images that assume the
form of vicious animals, homely visaged fowls, rabid and snarling cats and dogs, leprous and virile serpents,
cankerous lizards, slimy intestine worms, hairy and malicious insects. They are generated by greed, envy,
jealousy, covetousness, backbiting, amorous longings and other impure thoughts. With the soul filled with
this conglomeration of virus and filth, why doubt a hell and its counterpart condition, or expect the day or
night to bring happiness? If evil thoughts will infest the soul with ravenous microbes, good thoughts and
deeds will starve and suppress their activity, and create a heaven to supplant them. With this grand and
eternal truth in view, man should ever think kindly of those about him, control his temper in word and action,
seek his own, think the best of thoughts, study to relieve the worthy poor, seek solace in the depth of being,
and let gentleness and meekness characterize his life. Then will he sow the seeds of a present and future
heaven. His day thoughts and his night thoughts in harmony will point with unerring forecast to a peaceful
end. Spiritual and helpful warnings will fall upon the dream mind, as gently as dew upon the flowers and as
softly as a mother's kiss upon the lips of love. When our external lives are guided by the forces within, sweet
are the words and messages from our own spirit; for those who are truly blessed are those who seek divine
love through the channels of their inner world of consciousness.
{illust. caption = A DIAGRAM GIVING THE THEORY OF THIS BOOK, AND THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE MICROCOSM AND THE MACROCOSM.
FRAGMENTARY THOUGHTS FROM DREAM REALMS:}
Man is a little circle or world composed of the infinitesimal atoms thrown off from the great circle or parent

world, and fitting into his place in the zone of life. If in the revolutions of the great circle he catches more
material he increases his circle to objective or subjective growth: if he absorbs spiritual or mind atoms as they
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fall from the great body of creative source, he enlarges or contracts his own circle according to the
assimilation of the food he receives from the parent.
It is optional with man to obtain spiritual or material manna as it is disseminated throughout existence. To
feed on material diet alone, contracts and distorts the circle of the man; but a full comprehension of the needs
of the circle, a proper denial of supply to some of the compounds, together with a tender care of other parts,
will round out the whole into a perfect physical and mental circle of life.
Dissentious and conflicting results should be avoided in computing the length and breadth of the
compounded circle of man's individual world. Objective life is one of the smallest compounds in real life.
Dream life is fuller of meaning and teaching of the inner, or God life, than is the exterior life of man. The
mind receives education from communing with the dream composition in the great circle. Consult with your
whole nature or circle before beginning a serious work; partial consultations, or material advice only, often
brings defeat of objects sought, when a true home counsel would have brought success and consequent
happiness.
Man should live in his subjective realms and study more his relation to other compositions or circles; thus
fructifying and making beautiful his own world through intercourse with others who have worked in the great
storehouse of subjectivity, and who have climbed already from the basement into the light of spiritual
sunshine.
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A FEW QUESTIONS AND SUBJECTIVE ANSWERS REGARDING
DREAMS.
QUESTION.−−What is a dream?
ANSWER−−A dream is an event transpiring in that world belonging to the mind when the objective senses
have withdrawn into rest or oblivion.
Then the spiritual man is living alone in the future or ahead of objective life and consequently lives man's
future first, developing conditions in a way that enables waking man to shape his actions by warnings, so as
to make life a perfect existence.

Q.−−What relationship is sustained between the average man and his dreams?
A.−−A dream to the average or sensual person, bears the same relation to his objective life that it maintained
in the case of the ideal dreamer, but it means pleasures, sufferings and advancements on a lower or material
plane.
Q.−−Then why is man not always able to correctly interpret his dreams?
A.−−Just as words fail sometimes to express ideas, so dreams fail sometimes in their mind pictures to portray
coming events.
Q.−−If they relate to the future, why is it we so often dream of the past?
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A.−−When a person dreams of past events, those events are warnings of evil or good; sometimes they are
stamped so indelibly upon the subjective mind that the least tendency of the waking mind to the past throws
these pictures in relief on the dream consciousness.
Q.−−Why is it that present environments often influence our dreams?
A.−−Because the future of man is usually affected by the present, so if he mars the present by wilful wrongs,
or makes it bright by right living it will necessarily have influence on his dreams, as they are forecastings of
the future.
Q.−−What is an apparition?
A.−−It is the subjective mind stored with the wisdom gained from futurity, and in its strenuous efforts to
warn its present habitation−− the corporal body−−of dangers just ahead, takes on the shape of a dear one as
the most effective method of imparting this knowledge.
Q.−−How does subjectivity deal with time?
A.−−There is no past and future to subjectivity. It is all one living present.
Q.−−If that is so, why can't you tell us accurately of our future as you do of our past?
A.−−Because events are like a procession; they pass a few at a time and cast a shadow on subjective minds,
and those which have passed before the waking mind are felt by other minds also and necessarily make a
more lasting impression on the subjective mind.
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Q.−−To illustrate: A person on retiring or closing his eyes had a face appear to him, the forehead well formed
but the lower parts distorted. Explain this phenomenon?

A.−−A changed state from perfect sleep or waking possessed him.
Now, the man's face was only the expression of his real thoughts and the state of his business combined. His
thoughts were strong and healthy, but his business fagging, hence his own spirit is not a perfect likeness of
his own soul, as it takes every atom of earthly composition perfectly normal to reproduce a perfect spirit
picture of the soul or mortal man. He would have seen a true likeness of himself had conditions been
favorable; thus a man knows when a complete whole is his portion. Study to make surroundings always
harmonious. Life is only being perfectly carried on when these conditions are in unison.
HOW TO DEVELOP THE POWER TO DREAM.
Keep the mind clear and as free from material rubbish as is possible and go to sleep in a negative condition
(this will, of course, have to be cultivated by the subject). A person can, if he will, completely relax his mind
and body to the receptive mood required for dreams to appear as realities, or true explanations of future
events.
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To dream you are conversing with a dead relative, and that relative endeavors to extract a promise from you,
warns you of coming distress unless you follow the advice given. Disastrous consequences could be averted
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if minds could grasp the inner workings and sight of the higher or spiritual self. The voice of relatives is only
that higher self taking form to approach more distinctly the mind that lives near the material plane. There is
so little congeniality between common or material natures that persons should depend more largely upon their
own subjectivity for true contentment and pleasure.
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DREAMS EXAGGERATED.
The will is suspended during sleep, so the dream mind is more a prey to excitability than the waking mind.
Thus when images appear upon the dream vision they are frequently distorted into hideous malformations
that fill it with fear and excitement.
CONTRARY DREAMS.
The constant dwelling of the mind upon certain things distorts their shapes upon subjectivity, thus throwing
dreams in exactly opposite channels to the waking reality. Yet the dreamer always feels a sense of being
awake in dreams like these, and on awakening experiences no recuperation of mind or body after such

contrary dreams, Sleep is not fully sustained while the dreamer is held by material ideas in the subjective
state.
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WHEN DREAMS ARE LESS PRESCIENT.
The cessation of the organs to perform healthful functions converts a man into a different person, and dreams
while in this state would have no prophetic meaning, unless to warn the dreamer of this disorganization of his
physical system.
Dreams are symbols used by subjectivity to impress the objective or material mind with a sense of coming
good or evil. Subjectivity is the spiritual part of man. The soul is that circle of man lying just outside the
gross materiality and partaking largely of it. All thoughts and desires enter first the soul or material mind and
then cast themselves on the spirit. Frequently the soul becomes so filled with material or present ideas, that
the spiritual symbols are crowded out, and then it is that dreams seen to be contrary. Material subjectivity,
that is, all thoughts and ideas emanating from material sources, go to make up this circle; then the mind
catches up the better thoughts of this section and weaves them into a broader and more comprehensive power,
sustaining the owner in his own judgment.
And still another circle is formed of the finer compound of this, which is spiritual subjectivity, or the highest
element of intelligence reached by man. [This circle is ``the spiritual man'' and relates in substance to the
spiritual soul of the macrocosm or universe. It becomes strong or weak as we recognize or fail to recognize it
as a factor of being. The process of spiritual development is similar to that of the vegetable and animal
kingdoms. The trees on the outer rim of the forest are more capable of resisting the wind than those more to
the center, by reason of their exposure to storms; the roots have penetrated with double strength far into the
earth, and the branches are braced with toughened bark and closely knitted ligaments.
The same may be said of the animal kingdom. The mind is developed by vigorous exercise just as are
likewise the muscles of the body. The more these are cultivated by drawing from their parental affinities in
the macrocosm, the more knowledge or power they take on. Thus as a man simulates in thought and action an
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ape, a tiger, a goat, a snake or a lamb he takes on their characteristics and is swayed by like influences to
enmity, meekness, covetousness and avariciousness. To illustrate further. If he is cunning he draws on the fox
of the microcosm and becomes, in action and thought, like that animal. If selfishness survives, the hog

principle is aroused from its latent cells in the microcosm and he is dominated by material appetites. In a
similar way he may perceive the spiritual in himself. Nature's laws, with all their numberless and intricate
ramifications are simple in their harmony of process and uniformity of purpose when applied to the physical
and ethical developments of man.]
Possibilities for inner improvements or expansions rest with material man. If he entertains gross desires to the
exclusion of spiritual germs, he will dwarf and degrade higher aspirations, and thus deprive subjective
spirituality of her rightful possessions.
* * * *
Nature, in compounding the materials for the creation of the deaf man, inadvertently dropped the ingredient
sound, hence making an imperfect being; and sound, being thus foreign to his nature, he can only be
approached by signs even in dreams. Subjectivity uses nature's forces, while a normal person uses dreams to
work on his waking consciousness. As it is impossible to use with effect a factor which a man does not
naturally possess, a deaf man rarely ever dreams of sound, or a blind man of light.
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TWO DREAMS ARE NEVER THE SAME, NOR ARE TWO FLOWERS
EVER ALIKE.
Whatever symbol is used to impress the dreamer is the one which is likely to warn him more definitely than
any other. No two persons being ever in the same state at the same time, the same symbols would hardly
convey identical impressions; neither will the same dream be as effective in all cases of business or love with
the same dreamer.
A person's dream perception wavers, much as it does in waking hours. You fail to find the same fragrance in
the rose at all times, though the same influences seemingly surround you; and thus it is that different dreams
must be used for different persons to convey the same meaning.
Creation, confident of her power to perfect her designs, does not resort to that monotony in her work, which
might result were the perception of man, or the petals and fragrance of flowers cast from one stereotyped
mold of intelligence, beauty or sweetness. This variety of scheme runs through all creation. You think you
have identical dreams, but there is always some variation, even if it be something dreamed immediately over.
Nature is no sluggard and is forever changing her compounds, so that there is bound to be change in the
details even of dreams. This change would not materially affect the approach of happiness or sorrow in
different people, and hence the same dreams are reliable for all.

Persons of the same or similar temperament will be more deeply impressed by a certain dream than would
people their opposite; and though the dream cannot be the same in detail yet it is apparently the same, just as
two like flowers are called roses, though they are not identical.
If a young woman twenty−five and a girl of fifteen should each have a dream of marriage, the same definition
would apply to each, just the same as if they would each approach a flower and smell of it differently.
Different influences will possess them unconsciously, though the outward appearance be the same.
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A young woman of a certain age is warned in a dream of trouble likely to befall her, while another of similar
age and threatened trouble is warned also, but in different symbols, which she fails to grasp and bring back to
waking existence, and she thus believes she has had no warning dream.
There are those in the world who lack subjective strength, material or spiritual, and hence they fail to receive
dreams, however symbolic, because there is no power within them to retain these impressions.
There are many reasons for this loss, utter material gross−ness, want of memory, physical weakness
uncoupled from extreme nervousness, and total lack of faith in any warning or revelation purporting or
coming from the dream consciousness.
To dream at night and the following day have the thing dreamed of actually take place, or come before your
notice, is not allegorical. It is the higher or spiritual sense living or grasping the immediate future ahead of the
physical mind. The spiritual body is always first to come into contact with the approaching future; it is
present with it, while still future to the physical body. There is no reason why man should not grasp coming
events earlier, only he does not cultivate inner sight as he does his outer senses. The allegorical is used
because man weakens his spiritual force by catering to the material senses.
He clings to the pleasures and woes of the material world to the exclusion of spirituality.
WHAT'S IN A DREAM.
A.
``_When he was set down on the Judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, `Have thou nothing to do
with that just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream, because of him_.' ''−−Matthew xxvii,
19.
_Abandon_.
To dream that you are abandoned, denotes that you will have difficulty in framing your plans for future

success.
To abandon others, you will see unhappy conditions piled thick around you, leaving little hope of
surmounting them.
If it is your house that you abandon, you will soon come to grief in experimenting with fortune.
If you abandon your sweetheart, you will fail to recover lost valuables, and friends will turn aside from your
favors.
If you abandon a mistress, you will unexpectedly come into a goodly inheritance.
If it is religion you abandon, you will come to grief by your attacks on prominent people.
To abandon children, denotes that you will lose your fortune by lack of calmness and judgment.
To abandon your business, indicates distressing circumstances in which there will be quarrels and suspicion.
(This dream may have a literal fulfilment if it is impressed on your waking mind, whether you abandon a
person, or that person abandons you, or, as indicated, it denotes other worries.)
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To see yourself or friend abandon a ship, suggests your possible entanglement in some business failure, but if
you escape to shore your interests will remain secure.
_Abbey_.[3]
To see an abbey in ruins, foretells that your hopes and schemes will fall into ignoble incompletion.
To dream that a priest bars your entrance into an abbey, denotes that you will be saved from a ruinous state
by enemies mistaking your embarrassment for progress.
For a young woman to get into an abbey, foretells her violent illness. If she converses with a priest in an
abbey, she will incur the censure of true friends for indiscretion.
_Abbess_.
For a young woman to dream that she sees an abbess, denotes that she will be compelled to perform
distasteful tasks, and will submit to authority only after unsuccessful rebellion.
To dream of an abbess smiling and benignant, denotes you will be surrounded by true friends and pleasing
prospects.
_Abbot_.[3]
To dream that you are an abbot, warns you that treacherous plots are being laid for your downfall.
If you see this pious man in devotional exercises, it forewarns you of smooth flattery and deceit pulling you a

willing victim into the meshes of artful bewilderment.
For a young woman to talk with an abbot, portends that she will yield to insinuating flatteries, and in yielding
she will besmirch her reputation. If she marries one, she will uphold her name and honor despite poverty and
temptation.
[3] See similar words in connection with churches, priests, etc.
_Abdomen_.[4]
To see your abdomen in a dream, foretells that you will have great expectations, but you must curb
hardheadedness and redouble your energies on your labor, as pleasure is approaching to your hurt.
To see your abdomen shriveled, foretells that you will be persecuted and defied by false friends.
To see it swollen, you will have tribulations, but you will overcome them and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
To see blood oozing from the abdomen, foretells an accident or tragedy in your family.
The abdomen of children in an unhealthy state, portends that contagion will pursue you.
[4] See Belly.
_Abhor_.
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